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Design is getting decadent. Until recently, an ascetic Scandinavian simplicity held sway over the home. Our houses were boxes sealed in wood. The crime of wearing shoes too far past the threshold led to lost friends and broken families. Dangerous hygge levels threatened to smother small children and pets. But now the pendulum has swung in a more decorative direction.

Walking the aisles at this year’s design fairs meant passing patterned wallpaper, brass faucets, and chairs bathed in jewel-toned velvet. In galleries and showrooms, you see designers channeling Memphis and late-20th-century materialism with smoky mirrors, craggy concrete, and gloppy resin. “Fat furniture” has been a thing for a while.

It’s not surprising that this interest in rich finishes and louche aesthetics comes during a period of entrenched income inequality that many are already calling a new Gilded Age. Even so, though I’m personally a bit of a doctrinaire minimalist, I’m happy to see the generic “blandinavian” style fall out of fashion in favor of something more playful that, for now, feels a little daring.

This shift is evident to some degree in this year’s Dwell 24—our look at the best emerging designers creating objects for the home (p. 27). But in our selection process, we weeded out work that too deeply embodied a trend. We intentionally chose a group that is stylistically, philosophically, and geographically diverse.

Some are already rising stars. Ian Cochran took the design world by storm with a single table last year, while both Alex Brokamp and the founders of Green River Project are representing the United States as Rising Talents at Maison & Objet in Paris this September. Others stand out for integrating materials and ideas from their regions into their work, such as Paula Corrales, who incorporates traditional Chilean crafts into her lighting. And many have a sense of humor, including the Toronto studio Hi Thanks Bye, which merits a second look despite its hurried name.

The homes in this issue also represent a range of sensibilities. We visit a redwood hideaway (p. 70) that a Bay Area couple (and some friends) figured out how to build themselves—yes, it’s to code, we checked—a Melbourne home that’s a kaleidoscope of materials and finishes (p. 102), and even a casually modern loft nested in the ruins of a 16thcentury Spanish church (p. 96).

But whether we’re admiring a minimal home or studying a sculptural chair, we have to ask the same question: Does the design make us think differently about its expected use, its materials and process, and the social, historical, and ecological context in which it was conceived? For it to be good, the answer has to be yes. Trend forecasting is fun, but the best design rises above fashion. It changes how we understand the world.

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I love the Brooklyn apartment renovation in the last issue—a lot of beautiful textures and colors that quite subtly create a very cohesive whole. Well done all around!

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Letters and Feedback Preach it, William! [Editor’s Letter, May/June] Thank you for sharing from your heart and outlining the values of being human-centered, forward-looking, and optimistic.

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[Jay Nelson’s campers show] how inventive we can be when we try [“The Life Nomadic,” July/August].

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Re: The Wallpaper Trend How about an issue on this: not second-home owners. An issue about people with one and only one home/apartment/condo/shack/ camper/yurt/whatever. I get the impression that the fab homes on your pages are all second—or even third— homes for the fortunate few who also live or vacation elsewhere.

There are some wonderful monochromatic wallpapers out there that help with the shallow acoustics of the hard surfaces of minimalism. So yes on wallpaper, but the right type of wallpaper.

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Instagram Our top Instagram posts included this tiny mobile beach hut in New Zealand. The timber-clad cabin by Crosson Architects makes the most of its 430 square feet while providing rustic holiday living for a family of five. “The normal rituals of daily life—cooking, dining, sleeping, and showering—are all connected to the outside,” says the firm.

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Wheel chairs, because they still can’t climb stairs. @Sigurdlarsen_ architecture via Instagram Washing machine and dryer. They have looked the same for ages and need a total rethink. @4birdhouse via Instagram Cooking pans.

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One universal design prioritizing legibility, accessibility, ease of use, and auditing. @MalloryMcMorrow (Michigan state senator) via Twitter Duvets—they’re impossible to put on. @Jen_decharmoy via Instagram Refrigerators. They should be no deeper than a standard countertop so they fit into any kitchen and it’s easy to keep track of what’s

at the back. They should look good in a kitchen without having to integrate into the cabinets. @Jeremy_youngson via Instagram The remote control, so it would be easier for seniors to navigate.

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Because they’re either not secure or require keys. @Erinechan via Instagram

All flat building roofs, to have green space. @Silkenatthesea via Instagram A school armchair, because most children/students suffer from neck, shoulder, and back pain that really affects their focus. @daily_interior via Twitter Stainless steel teapots and coffee pots. Yes, that design, found in every transport cafe,

hotel, and restaurant on Earth. Despite tens of millions being made, I’ve yet to find one that pours cleanly, and this has infuriated me for the last 45 years.

Nick Phipp via Facebook Let’s get rid of those disposable plastic flossers. I’m very serious. I don’t want mine to end up in the ocean! @Margin_walker43 via Instagram I’d like a rotating fridge or a rotating oven. No forgotten yogurt or dried-out avocados, and no burnt fingers when turning over the sausages at the back of the rack. @Deirdrerashiiid via Instagram

The toilet, because we spend so much time sitting there.

Maybe one with a built-in cup holder or sidecar type of desktop or even a massage chair effect. @Charlamorgan fineartbythesea via Instagram The footstool. Been thinking about it for a while. They should be collapsible so they can slide away and still be modern and fashionable.

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Architect Louis Béliveau helped the couple keep as much of the original structure as

possible while giving the 4,500-square-foot interior a clean, modern feel. The cladding is local hemlock spruce.

Louis Poulsen pendants complement IKEA stools painted Hague Blue by Farrow & Ball (left). An oversize window in a bedroom (below left) offers views of the Sutton Mountains.

The living area (below) is tucked next to the open dining area, which features a 35-foot-high wall of glass. Timber beams are evident throughout. “The original post-and-beam structure was taken down, numbered, and reused within the new shell,” says Béliveau.

“It’s all farms around our property, and most of the barns have been torn down. I didn’t want to do that.” Christian Élie, resident

For three years after buying and renovating a farmhouse for their family in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Christian Élie and Marie Guilmette watched as a hulking, dilapidated cow barn on the property slowly sank into the earth and reached the verge of collapse. Deciding he couldn’t let it go, Christian called a company that specializes in moving and restoring buildings. “Saving it was a completely emotional decision,” he says.

The contractors lifted the barn and built a new foundation. Then, the rescued structure sat empty for five more years. Finally, in 2016, the couple decided to transform it into a living space for their children, who had moved out of the house by then but visited often.

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then turned to Louis Béliveau of Montreal’s La Firme to complete the project. Expanding on Christian’s initial ideas, Béliveau added larger openings for windows, including a 35-foot-high expanse of glass at the center of one elevation; new exterior and interior hemlock spruce cladding (the same local wood used to build the barn a century ago); and clean-lined, minimalist details like a powder-coated steel staircase that floats over a white oak floor.

“He found a way of improving every idea I had,” Christian says. In fact, by the time the barn was finished last August, he and Marie had changed their minds about how to use it. “We decided to live in the barn,” he says, and leave the farmhouse for the kids.

“It really is magical, with the volume and the light.

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Simon Schmitz From light and shadow to movement and mechanics‚ Hamburgbased lighting designer Simon Schmitz‚ 29‚ is part sculptor‚ part puppeteer. A graduate of HFBK Hamburg‚ he has designs in production and development with DCW Editions and Martinelli Luce.

Schmitz manipulates light as though it were a material to be shaped and guided. His AARO lamp is a balancing act involving a single sphere joint that allows the lamp to move fluidly in any direction. For his Raa lamp‚ the angle of light can also be manually adjusted. It shines through an engraved acrylic shade‚ which creates shadows and textured patterns on the wall. “I’m excited about objects that do not want to hide themselves‚ but dare to make a statement‚” he says.

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Samson Furniture Design Trained as an engineer in aircraft repair‚ Canadian furniture designer Samson Wang‚ 30‚ brings his knowledge of physics to dynamic pieces. His sense of movement is most prominent in Rhythmic Serenity‚ a lounge chair made of ebonized white ash that appears to take off toward the sky. Employing digital and analog techniques‚ he creates pieces that reveal his exacting execution and personal handiwork. He credits his propensity for working with wood—used in the majority of his designs—to his grandfather‚ who was a carpenter. “When I do woodworking‚ I feel connected to family as well as to nature‚” he says. A recent graduate of Sheridan College‚ Wang participated in WantedDesign Manhattan’s Launch Pad last May‚ where he showed his newest works‚ including INK‚ a side table‚ which was inspired by calligraphy and the landscape of China’s Jiangnan region. —Anna Talley

“First‚ never listen too much. I have two daughters‚ and naturally I tell them my point of view‚ but as you grow‚ you don’t have to listen to Papa and Mama anymore. In life and in design it’s the same. I love the word ‘culture.’

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Ian Cochran is a designer with the eye of an artist and the mind of a scientist. Trained as a sculptor at the Kansas City Art Institute‚ the 29-year-old has always been interested in materiality‚ which is evident when you look at his bulbous resin furniture. “The works I’ve produced so far all stem from the same interests that influenced my art—science and material reality‚” he says. In 2018‚ Cochran burst onto the scene with his first piece‚ Plump Table‚ a playful coffee table made from sinuous molded slabs of resin. Next‚ he made Dew Drop‚ a side-table-meets-footstool that looks like a gem-hued gumdrop. He plans to continue experimenting with material and form in his next body of work. “One might be more candy-like‚ another inspired by honeycombs‚” he says. —Liz Stinson

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Laura Itkonen chunks of red clay on delicate white porcelain‚ the surprises keep coming. Rather than steer toward large-scale production‚ Itkonen‚ 37‚ embraces the beauty and imperfection she finds in one-of-a-kind pieces sculpted by hand. “I work in the space between art and design‚” she

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Alex Brokamp Cincinnati-born designer Alex Brokamp has come a long way from making skateboard ramps in his parents’ driveway. Currently studying for a master’s degree at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena‚ Brokamp‚ 28‚ has already worked for Matter Made‚ Rookwood Pottery Company‚ and Brendan Ravenhill Studio. This past spring‚ during New York City’s design week‚ he won a NYCxDesign award for his Collate Table Collection‚ which he made using CNC-cutting to create patterns on aluminum tabletops. He is also exhibiting at Paris’s Maison & Objet this month‚ where‚ along with five other studios‚ he will represent the United States. His approach‚ he explains‚ is to find the middle ground between experimentation and function: “The balance is to be lighthearted‚ but to execute in a careful‚ refined way.” —AH Peapod Light MEXICO CITY | @VIDIVIXISTUDIO

Vidivixi Although Mark Grattan‚ 35‚ and Adam Caplowe‚ 28‚ started out in two of the world’s top design hubs—New York and London‚ respectively—the duo say Mexico City is where they truly found their footing. “The design scene here is growing rapidly‚” says Caplowe. Adds Grattan: “It gives young designers the space to explore and experiment but without the financial constraints found in many other large capitals.” The pair’s inaugural collection of marble‚ glass‚ and bronze pieces takes its cue from the city’s Art Deco and tropical modern architecture. A highlight is the Docked en Río bed‚ which—aided by Pia Riverola’s artful photography—turned the walnut bed’s cotton-upholstered folded frame into an Internet sensation. The designers are currently working on a new collection and showroom‚ both of which will debut during Design Week Mexico in October.

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PORTO‚ PORTUGAL & SINGAPORE @ ORIGINMADE & @ GABRIELTANDESIGN

Gabriel Tan Studio/Origin A vacation to Portugal in 2014 planted the seed for what would become Singapore-born designer Gabriel Tan’s design collaborative‚ Origin. A visit to an artisan’s workshop in Barcelos (near Porto) opened his eyes to how much design was being produced in the country for top international brands. Tan‚ 37‚ decided the time had come to properly recognize the provenance of these objects‚ giving both designer and maker equal attention. (Each piece in Origin’s line is labeled with the names of the designer and craftsperson.)

“I wanted this to be about not just where the company is branded from‚ but where the pieces are actually made‚” he says. He tapped a mix of designers—including Hugo Passos‚ Zoë Mowat‚ and Pauline Deltour—to collaborate with artisans to create pieces ranging from stone bowls to wooden coat pegs‚ in addition to creating pieces of his own.

Next‚ Tan will bring Origin’s globetrotting concept to Brazil.

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Introduced at this year’s ICFF to rave reviews‚ Ryan Edward Studio is the lighting and furniture practice of Ryan Heinz‚ 26. His threepiece Orbit collection—a sconce‚ a pendant‚ and a Calderesque chandelier—proves that lighting can be playful as well as illuminating by inviting user interaction.

The New Jersey native started out training to be a mechanical engineer but soon switched to industrial design and earned his master’s degree at SCAD‚ the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has taken up residence in the Southern city‚ attracted by its lower cost of living and friendly vibes. “I enjoy making connections with people‚” says Heinz‚ explaining why‚ for now‚ he sells customized work to interior designers and not to retail stores.

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Àga Concept Founded in Lagos in 2015‚ Moyo Ogunseinde’s Àga Concept has quickly made a name for itself with a striking collection of homewares and accessories‚ all locally sourced and handcrafted. Ogunseinde‚ 41‚ who studied architecture at University College London‚ brings her minimalist aesthetic to products inspired by her childhood in Ibadan‚ in southwestern Nigeria.

“My designs are full of the cultural nuances I grew up with‚” she says. “The rawness of the forms evokes a deeper connection to Yoruba culture and values that I’m seeking to preserve.” Recently‚ the brand has been expanding its Egungun collection‚ inspired by masked figures in Yoruba lore.

The pieces‚ originally designed as wooden keepsakes‚ have evolved into a series of functional objects‚ including lamps and shelves. —DV Egungun-Ngar Balls

SANTIAGO | @ PAULACORRALES.STUDIO

Paula Corrales Studio Chilean designer Paula Corrales‚ 29‚ is motivated by technique.

Whether done by hand or high tech‚ the manufacturing process is an essential part of the design experience for her. A prime example is her recent project‚ Lamps from Chile‚ which she produced in collaboration with fellow designer Mitsue Kido‚ after studying the craft of artisans in the Maule region. A standout in the collection—the delicate Crin Weaving Lamp—employs traditional weaving methods (consisting of a concentric crisscross of horsehair and vegetable fiber) typically used to make decorative tabletop figurines and jewelry‚ but on a much larger scale.

Corrales credits her years working for the gt2P (Great Things to People)‚ the renowned Chilean design studio‚ for helping her navigate the international design scene. In October‚ she will colead the British Council’s Crafting Futures initiative in Chile. —PC Crin Weaving Lamp

“I don’t see any other possibility but for designers to abandon the ‘decorativism’ with which they are currently concerned. The future of design will be content.

When an object‚ in addition to practical values‚ expresses transcendental values‚ such as philosophical‚ religious‚ political ones‚ it then becomes art.

Time constantly proposes new values that will be expressed through art‚ poetry‚ music‚ architecture‚ and so on.

The use of different disciplines helps one avoid falling into a routine.

Moreover‚ creativity has no barriers.”

“I think it’s very important that your first body of work takes‚ let’s say‚ five years.

It takes a while to build your own vocabulary and to find your own way. What are you addressing?

Come up with a topic and build a collection of objects that shows the world what you stand for.

Don’t just take it out of a book.

It’s a matter of being authentic in your way of bringing the world something that we need—and not just another style.

If you spend five years on a collection‚ and show it around‚ the industry will see you. You don’t have to reach out.”

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Pesce recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of his still-provocative Up5 chair (and Up6 ottoman) with a special edition

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Jongerius used seven types of jacquard weaves to create her Vlinder sofa and Bovist pouf for Vitra‚ where she is the art director for colors and materials.

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Agnes Studio Guatemala’s pre-Columbian heritage forms the basis for the newest collection from designers Estefanía de Ros‚ 29‚ and Gustavo Quintana‚ 36. Looking at Mayan culture through a contemporary‚ or even prophetic‚ lens‚ the two came up with an interesting premise‚ Quintana recalls: “We began playing with the idea—what would happen if that pre-Columbian design had evolved into a hypothetical utopian future?” The result is furniture brimming with bold shapes and textural materials‚ such as the circular Lana chair with its raw wool seat and the sculptural Altar dining table composed of lava rock and elephant ear wood. While the pair’s reference points might be rooted in the past‚ the designs undoubtedly resonate with the here and now. —PC Lana Bench

COPENHAGEN‚ DENMARK & STAVANGER‚ NORWAY | @ MIJOSTUDIO

MIJO Studio Miranda Tengs Brun‚ 30‚ and Josefine Gilbert‚ 31‚ are a DanishNorwegian duo shaking up pattern and textile design with largescale prints alive with splashy colors and wavy brushstrokes.

Experimentation plays a major role in their work‚ as demonstrated in the print on their AIO chair. “By mistake‚ the combination of color and movement suddenly created this fascinating pattern‚” says Gilbert. “After some time‚ we figured out how to control the new technique‚ which we have been using ever since.” The two designers met while attending The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Design. Together‚ they established MIJO Studio in Copenhagen in 2016‚ where they collaborate with such clients as Eve Sleep‚ NuTe‚ and The Poster Club. —TO Lil Chair

Wanders’s latest work for Moooi‚ the company he cofounded‚ is the highly customizable—and presumably very friendly— BFF Sofa.

HANGZHOU‚ CHINA @ MARIOTSAI_STUDIO

Mario Tsai Studio For Mario Tsai‚ 30‚ restraint is at the essence of the design process—though not without a sense of humor. (Images of his true-to-its-name Pig Table went viral in the design world last year.) In 2014‚ Tsai founded his research-oriented studio to explore new materials and production methods‚ all through the lens of sustainability. In designing the delicate Mazha lighting system‚ Tsai sought to reduce both costs and the amount of material used in production‚ packaging‚ and transport. In addition‚ the modular nature of the fixtures allows for lower maintenance costs. He has since turned his sights on reducing waste from design exhibitions. “So much material gets thrown away after an event ends‚ particularly in China‚” he says. “I am developing a reusable‚ easy-to-dismantle system that can become a sustainable solution for exhibitions and temporary buildings.” —DV Pig Table

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“Remember, beauty is never absolute. It’s always relative.

Things are beautiful in relation to other things‚ so the study of beauty is the study of relationships.

Work hard and be super honest.

There’s no reason to hurry. You can’t have results now if you want results in the future. You don’t want to burn too fast. Don’t peak too early.

Be slow. And don’t die. Then I can’t help you. You have to build‚ build‚ build‚ build. You have to become great. That takes time. There’s an endless amount of time in front of you‚ and you will be amazing!”

BALTIMORE | @ MALCOLMMAJER

Malcolm Majer For Baltimore’s Malcolm Majer‚ 36‚ function rates relatively low on the list of design priorities.

Instead‚ the Rhode Island School of Design graduate is driven by a desire to explore a range of other‚ more compelling‚ qualities. “There is such an intimate relationship between users and their furniture‚” says Majer. “If a piece is oddly hard‚ cold‚ and heavy when touched‚ that becomes more interesting to

me than its being comfortable.”

As a result‚ Majer’s chairs are difficult to categorize and highly expressive—all jutting angles and shifting colors. Majer treats his practice as an outlet that lets him upend the constraints of his day job‚ architectural metal fabrication. “In fabrication‚ I have to plan and draw before making‚” says Majer. “In my designs‚ I allow the form of the piece to unfold as it’s being made.” —DV

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SinCa Design Sometimes inspiration comes just from keeping your eyes open.

“We might borrow a line from a timber-framed building or the upper neck of a bottle of mezcal‚” says Dave Sinaguglia‚ 37‚ of SinCa Design. Sinaguglia arrived at furniture design by way of sculpture and boat building. His

wife and partner‚ Maria Camarena‚ 36‚ trained as an industrial designer. The duo‚ who use traditional woodworking techniques‚ founded the studio in 2016. In their meticulously crafted pieces‚ there is not an unnecessary detail to be found. The Yin-Yang chair is the perfect example. A gentle‚

swelling line rises above a stool‚ providing back support and a subtle springing motion. “Wood is always moving‚ so we have to design for the movement‚” explains Sinaguglia. “For us‚ wood is less a material and more a practice—the way yoga is‚” says Camarena. Balance prevails. —DV

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Hi Thanks Bye When Stein Wang‚ 29‚ and Topher Kong‚ 28‚ came up with the name of their studio‚ Hi Thanks Bye‚ they knew it would be a conversation starter. The name— intended to be both playful and earnest—refers to their no-timewasted approach to furniture design‚ prioritizing efficiency without sacrificing quality and a sense of fun. In their first commercial project‚ Collection O‚ the pair pay homage to their Chinese-Canadian backgrounds‚ evoking both Chinese gardens and the natural landscapes of Prince Edward and Fogo Islands.

The pieces‚ made of cold-rolled steel sheets and handmade textiles‚ combine traditional and modern techniques. The designers’ knack for storytelling is on full display in their latest collection‚ Be My Guest‚ in which they focus on the art of entertaining at home. Wang and Kong have several projects in development with emerging Chinese furniture companies such as HC28‚ Grado‚ and Kun Design. —PC Uo Shelf/Divider

ROTTERDAM‚ NETHERLANDS @ STUDIOTRULYTRULY

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Ángel Mombiedro Ángel Mombiedro’s melting pot approach to design is owed to his training in several strikingly different cities around the world. With a degree in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and additional studies in Hamburg and São Paulo—as well as a stint in New York—Mombiedro‚ 31‚ has incorporated a range of ideas and techniques into his practice. Even the Spanish medieval town of Cuenca‚ where his mother is from‚ serves as fodder for his designs. “From all these influences‚ I create my own language‚” he explains. His professional experience has been equally diverse: He has produced exhibition design‚ interiors‚ and branding. In his debut furniture collection—composed of brightly colored tables‚ seating‚ and lighting—he mixes geometric forms and materials such as velvet‚ iron‚ and metal. —PC Bullarengue Lounge Chair

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Since opening Studio Truly Truly in 2014‚ Joel and Kate Booy‚ both 38‚ have established themselves on the international design scene. The transplanted Australians—they now call Rotterdam home—have worked with a range of lighting‚ textile‚ furniture‚ ceramics‚ and glass manufacturers as well as for IKEA’s PS Collection‚ a commission they got straight out of the Design Academy Eindhoven‚ where Joel attended graduate school. (“Kate learned by osmosis‚” Joel says.) The couple always work as a team.

“I have more energy at the start‚” he says. “She refines and edits.” This year‚ they were chosen to design Das Haus‚ the Cologne furniture fair’s demo residence‚ which showcased their plush Press Sofa‚ glass-and-steel Seismic Table‚ and more. —AH

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BEIRUT | @ STUDIOPAOLASAKR

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Urvi Sharma‚ 25‚ and Manan Narang‚ 31‚ both grew up in New Delhi but first crossed paths at Rhode Island School of Design. In 2018‚ they founded INDO-‚ a studio that marries craft with modern manufacturing.

“Living in a place where most objects were traditionally handmade and have been replaced by massmanufactured counterparts makes you aware of what is being lost for the sake of convenience or cost‚” says Narang. “Deconstructing traditional methods‚ finding what makes a process special‚ is at the core of our philosophy.” The duo’s work includes dyed tables influenced by ceramic dip glazing and a credenza referencing the dyeing and weaving process of ikat fabrics. “Craft provides context and identity in a globalized and increasingly homogenous landscape‚” says Sharma. —DV

Paola Sakr’s projects—vases made with discarded concrete cylinders‚ biodegradable containers made of coffee grounds and newspaper pulp—might lead you to conclude that she’s on a mission to save the planet. But the Beirut designer‚ 24‚ who turned from interior architecture to product design after discovering the discipline in school‚ finds herself drawn to repurposing materials because “there’s more of a story behind it‚” she says. In addition to these green projects‚ she has created tableware for those with visual impairments and furniture composed of glass‚ marble‚ and terrazzo. “I’m open to anything that comes to me‚” she says. Currently‚ Sakr is working with a leading international textile manufacturer on a project to debut in Milan next year‚ pursuing her ongoing goal to collaborate with the world. —AH

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“Design is hard work.

The idea sketched on a napkin that becomes a great product design? It doesn’t work like that. Design doesn’t come easy‚ but that doesn’t mean you’re not going to enjoy it. You need endurance. Don’t give in too quickly.

I think I can say that now after so many years in practice. Also‚ it’s very important for designers to see themselves as part of an industry that has a culture— and not just as self-made entrepreneurs. Designers within the industry help companies develop smarter ways of doing things.”

“Being a designer or a manufacturer comes with a responsibility.

I dream of a world with fewer but better products‚ where people favor staying power over fading trends. In order to have longevity‚ you have to have vision and purpose. That is the secret sauce.

Form follows function. We are believers‚ almost religiously‚ that utility can and should be elegant.

Finally‚ please make sure you have read Dieter Rams’s ‘10 Principles of Good Design’ before you start your endeavor.”

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SOFIE CHRISTENSEN EGELUND

Last spring Grcic introduced Noctambule (Night Owl)‚ a light for Flos made from customizable arrangements of handblown glass cylinders.

Egelund recently expanded Vipp‚ the company founded by her grandfather‚ into lighting‚ furnishings (including the VIPP451 chair‚ above)‚ and‚ with the new Vipp Hotel in Denmark‚ architecture.

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BLOOMFIELD HILLS‚ MICHIGAN | @ STUDIO.SUNNYKIM

Studio.Sunnykim A recent graduate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art‚ SeonHee “Sunny” Kim‚ 34‚ has wanted to be a designer since her middle school days in South Korea.

“I wanted a job where I could make things I imagined‚ but my parents said it would be hard to make money doing that—they wanted me to be a teacher‚” she says. Kim has more than proved her parents wrong‚ with a client list that includes Mercedes-Benz‚ LVMH‚ and Samsung. The head designer at Bahk Seon Ghi Studio in Seoul‚ she is interested in thin‚ flexible materials‚ as evident in her paper Depth of Surface chair. “I like to experiment. When people see my workshop‚ they think I’m playing‚” she says. —AH Depth of Surface Chair

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“To be a designer means you have to be an engineer‚ a chemist‚ a mathematician‚ a scientist‚ a painter‚ a poet‚ a worker‚ a carpenter. You need to know many different approaches.

First‚ you need discipline. Second‚ you need the capacity to be a hard worker.

When you draw‚ draw by yourself‚ by hand‚ and not with a computer. You need a lot of passion‚ but it’s a profession. It’s not a joke. Last but not least‚ it’s full of responsibilities.

We are not artists‚ we are designers.

That’s different.”

NEW YORK CITY | @ GREENRIVERPROJECTLLC

Green River Project Green River Project—a collaboration between Benjamin Bloomstein‚ 31‚ and Aaron Aujla‚ 33—took its name from the river that runs through Bloomstein’s family farm in upstate New York where the studio got its start. The founders‚ who both have a background in fine arts‚ “approach design like making artwork‚” says Aujla. For each collection‚ the two “create a different narrative‚” explains Bloomstein‚ which allows them to explore new techniques and materials. It results in such diverse pieces as their coffee-stained stools upholstered with corduroy and their angular‚ modern-style bamboo club chairs. Winners of the 2019 Maison & Objet Rising Talent Award‚ the two designers are showing work in Paris this fall and are currently developing a small‚ sustainable woodland housing structure. —AT Brass and Lacquered Wood Daybed LONDON | @ BEFOREBREAKFAST_LONDON

Before Breakfast Nicki Shen is a morning person. Every day before breakfast the designer makes a to-do list‚ laying out exactly what she needs to accomplish. “The design process in my head is long and messy‚” she says. Her designs‚ however‚ are not. Shen‚ 35‚ founder of the aptly named Before Breakfast studio‚ makes perfectly minimalist office wares like notebooks‚ scissors‚ and pens. Shen trained as a graphic designer and‚ after getting her MFA from Edinburgh College of Art‚ began experimenting with Risograph printing‚ a form of low-cost‚ high-volume printing that originated in Japan. All of Shen’s notebooks are bound with paper handcrafted in her studio and printed with eco-friendly soy inks. Her sleek scissors and ergonomic pen took a year’s worth of prototyping to get right. “There was a lot of trial and error but the process was actually very enjoyable‚” she says. Just imagine how many to-do lists that took. —LS

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PARIS | @WENDYANDREU

Wendy Andreu “I was terrible at sewing techniques—sewing machines were a nightmare‚” recalls Wendy Andreu‚ 28. An accomplished metalworker‚ the young Frenchwoman—as a student at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands—wanted to go out of her comfort zone and turned to textiles‚ at first with disastrous results. She solved the problem by using glue. “When you don’t know better‚ you find new ways of doing things‚” she says. Case in point is the technique and textile she devised called Regen‚ a composite of glue (silicone or latex) and rope. Combining her metalworking skills with this unique material‚ she has produced fashion accessories‚ furniture‚ and carpets. “I’m interested in materials‚ processes‚ and structures‚ and not the usual way of doing things‚” says Andreu. “I’m craving to explore more.” —AH

Lissoni recently designed the Grasshopper table‚ with its insectlike legs‚ as part of a 2019 collection for Knoll.

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The ability to carve the human figure in marble. But more important, being able to capture the figure’s soul in the sculpture. Ryan Heinz Negotiation tactics. Stein Wang

Proper Italian pasta making! Joel Booy

Teleportation, a kind of super strength like in Marvel comics.

I really hate to waste too much time on the road. Mario Tsai

WHAT’S IN YOUR DREAM HOUSE?

Secret passageways.

Urvi Sharma

A separate refrigerator for ice cream and a library with a spa. SeonHee Kim A cedar-wood sauna (on a lake!). Kate Booy A room full of all my favorite stationery in the world, including some items I can’t get anymore. I’d call it the Stationery Museum. Nicki Shen An indoor hammock.

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WHAT EVERYDAY OBJECT WOULD YOU LIKE TO REDESIGN?

For a long time I house that I can keep in my car, like Doraemon. I’d love to design a folding house someday.

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Titled Xylem, Diébédo Francis Kéré’s 2,100-square-foot pavilion at the Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana is made of lodgepole pine logs from standing-dead trees that were taken down to prevent fires.

Diébédo Francis Kéré smiled with nervous pride as he led a group on a tour of his pavilion at Tippet Rise Art Center, a 12,000-acre ranch, sculpture park, and classical music venue in southern Montana. A strong sun filtered through the structure’s circular canopy of stripped logs that form a rippling honeycomb pattern. The work is titled Xylem, for the vessels in plants that carry water up from the roots, and its fresh timber fills the air with a calming forest smell. Set along a creek amid aspen and cottonwood trees, it provides a quiet, comfortably scaled refuge in the vast, sage-dotted terrain undulating south toward the Beartooth Mountains.

Kéré has built in his share of far-flung locations. He was born in Gando, a small village in southeastern Burkina Faso.

The oldest son of the village chief, he was sent to school in Tenkodogo, the nearest city. He eventually studied architecture at the Technical University of Berlin, where his firm is now based. But he completed his first projects back in Gando. A series of

Diébédo Francis Kéré The Berlin-based architect shows us his new pavilion on a breathtaking site in Montana and tells us how he stays committed to his home village in Burkina Faso.

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public buildings, including a primary school, they won international acclaim for combining local materials and craft techniques with a global contemporary design language and innovative passive cooling schemes. He has gone on to create works ranging from a national park complex in Mali in 2010 to a pavilion for London’s Serpentine Gallery in 2017 and a pop-up at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival earlier this year.

Kéré describes his work with a combination of technical detail, poetic vision, and charismatic humility. At the opening of Xylem, which coincided with the beginning of Tippet Rise’s summer concert series, he spoke about balancing new projects around the world with those in his home village.

Before you got the Tippet Rise commission, had you been to Montana?

No. When we first came, I was like, “Wow! This exists!” It’s so vast, so monumental.

How did those first impressions influence your design?

For visitors, we wanted to create a space where they could come to listen to a

concert, or when they come back from a hike, they could rest and reflect. We made it a circle because we wanted to create a gathering place, and the circle is the best way to communicate and the most democratic way to sit. It was inspired by structures in the rural areas of Burkina Faso, and even up to Mali, called a toguna.

A toguna is the gathering space in these places. It’s where you go when you enter a compound. It’s an iconic building, a landmark.

How did you adapt that idea to Montana?

If you look from far away, the form of the canopy relates a little bit to the landscape.

You feel embraced, but not totally closed off from the outside world. That was one element. We also wanted to use locally available wood. If we didn’t use it, the wood might have fueled the next fire. It would disappear. So subtly we gave a new life to the wood.

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Tippet Rise is a sprawling working ranch and arts center with a collection of massive outdoor sculptures.

Kéré’s canopy (above and right) offers visitors a quiet refuge in the vast landscape. His other projects include the 2017 pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery in London (below). Now moved to Malaysia, the work funnels rainwater into a well at its center.

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Kéré’s first completed projects were public buildings in Gando, his home village in Burkina Faso, where he continues to work. He designs buildings there so that they can be constructed by local people with

local materials. The Tippet Rise Fund of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation has pledged a significant donation toward a secondary school (above and below) that will serve a thousand students.

After your father’s death six years ago, you became the head of your village.

Is it a challenge to balance the work that you’re doing around the world and back home?

In Burkina it’s about growing the capacity to delegate. There are now about 150 people who have learned our construction techniques from working on other buildings. With some of the projects we’re doing there right now, I don’t need to draw the building completely. I just have a sketch, and my people are able to understand and further develop the idea since they have adapted the techniques.

Do you have a dream project?

I have no dream project. My dream clients are open to new ideas. They are visionary.

They are challenging me, and they just give me a chance to create, no matter where it is, no matter the size or what it is. So, in the end, if this can be achieved in terms of serving people—whether it’s housing, a museum, a school, a university—then I’m more than happy.

“The quality of material is really important to me, and that my work inspires people. Inspiration is so big to me.” DIÉBÉDO FRANCIS KÉRÉ, ARCHITECT 50

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Is there a commonality running through all your work?

Generosity in terms of space for people.

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My Vision: Create a modern, organic home that harmonizes with the landscape.

—Stuart Narofsky, Architect FAIA Narofsky Architecture

Enveloped by nature, this dynamic home in Rumson, New Jersey, connects to the landscape with its layered floor plan and floor-to-ceiling windows and doors. Kolbe’s VistaLuxe® Collection provides clean lines and large expanses of glass for uninterrupted views. See Stuart’s full vision at kolbewindows.com/organic

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The Power of Light How human-centric lighting is changing the way we illuminate our homes.

“Neuroscience shows that all the things that ignite the senses—art, scents, music, design—actually have a positive effect on you on a cellular level,” says Ivy Ross, vice president of design for hardware products at Google. “Of course, I know that as a designer and an artist, but it’s fantastic that science backs it up now, too.”

At this year’s Salone del Mobile in Milan, Google presented “A Space for Being,” an exhibition that explored how science, design, and technology can come together to understand the body’s response to aesthetic experiences. Google worked with the International Arts + Mind Lab of the Brain Sciences Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Reddymade Architecture and

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Design, and Scandinavian furniture brand Muuto to create the presentation.

One component of the exhibition was variations in lighting. For a long time, good lighting has been considered an aesthetic enhancement, an esteemed element of a well-designed interior but largely thought of only in terms of architectural decor. Now, thanks to an emerging crossover between neurobiology, design, and other disciplines, it’s also being recognized for what it is: essential to our physical well-being.

“Light has a profound effect on the homeostasis and regulation of lots of things in our bodies,” says Susan Magsamen, executive director of the International

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Arts + Mind Lab. As the prime synchronizer of our circadian clock, it regulates melatonin, sleep, and performance.

If our clocks are chronically misaligned, it alters the timing of melatonin production, sleep, immune function, metabolism, and a host of other biological systems.

This can increase the odds of healthrelated problems, including diabetes, depression, and anxiety.

“Ever since we introduced electric light into our homes, we threw ourselves into an unnatural environment,” says Fred Maxik, founder of Lighting Science Group, which, working with NASA to help astronauts sleep better on the International Space Station, obtained some of the first patents for lighting systems that respond to biological conditions.

“Then we developed things like handheld

“Our bodies are constantly sensing, taking in information. The spaces we create, and the aesthetic elements we put in them, can reinforce our feeling of being either comfortable or stressed.”

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devices, laptops, cell phones, and tablets, which amplified the amount of light we get in hours we weren’t initially programmed to get it.”

Here is where the positives of technology enter the picture. Before we had LEDs, we had one light spectrum per bulb. Now, we can use LEDs to create shifting, tunable light that is potentially as beneficial as actual sunlight to our bodies’ natural rhythms. Biodynamic light, as it is called, may have the power to improve productivity and concentration in workplaces and schools, as well as facilitate healing in hospitals. Next stop: our homes.

Controlled via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS, “tunable white light” is adjustable, personalized daylight in our houses that provides us with the biological conditions we need while still offering all the benefits of electric light.

Lighting designer Gregory Kay, the founder of Chicago-based Lightology and PureEdge Lighting, points to manufacturers such as Contraste, WAC Lighting, and Philips Lighting (now Signify)—which just added Bluetooth functionality to its tunable Hue line—as innovators in this space. They’ve developed LED bulbs and lighting systems that actively stimulate our circadian rhythms. For lighting company Healthe, Maxik and his team created the SunLync Wireless Control Device, which uses GPS to track the positions of its SunTrac A19 lightbulbs, so it can mimic the natural arc of the sun throughout the day.

Even more exciting to Kay is that he sees the technology getting to the point where it produces light that is even better for our well-being than the sun’s. “We are enhancing ourselves, really creating a utopian space where we can live inside better,” he says.

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Box Set A trio of stark concrete forms dots the landscape at a weekend getaway outside Mexico City.

Architects Javier Sánchez and Carlos Mar of JSa created a bold house in Valle de Bravo that emerges from the setting in three parts like “excavated stone boxes,” says Sánchez. Inspired by Donald Judd’s minimalist works, the three

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volumes feature board-formed concrete walls accented with charred wood. The tallest (shown here) contains four double-height bedrooms, each with a “tapanco,” or loft, for sleeping or reading.

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Valle de Bravo is two hours and a world away from the commotion of Mexico City.

Set on the shores of Lake Avándaro, it’s a popular weekend destination for well-todo residents of the capital, who flock to the town to savor its colonial charm and to sail, paraglide, and hike.

In search of a quiet getaway that could double as a vacation and holiday hub for extended family and friends, a Mexico City couple found a three-and-a-half-acre property there and reached out to architect Javier Sánchez to come up with a design that would make the most of the site.

Sánchez, founder of the architecture and development firm JSa, embraced the challenge, collaborating with architect Carlos Mar on a plan for three “floating monoliths” rising from the landscape. Strategically placed cutouts and windows frame

views within and between the volumes and out to the surrounding terrain.

“Weekend estates should push users to experience life differently from the way they do in the city,” says Sánchez. “Splitting the residence into smaller ‘houses’ creates independence for multiple inhabitants, while walking from one volume to the next allows for contemplation and engagement with the landscape, the weather, and the views.”

The architects envisioned the first structure that visitors encounter upon arrival as a kind of welcome space, outfitted with a bar, fireplace, and pool table.

The second structure is a tall, two-story volume with two double-height bedrooms on each floor. Also two stories, the third building includes an alfresco dining area, a living room with a conversation pit

“Cement, gravel, sand, and water became the main ingredients for the envelope that makes up each box.”

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the mild climate allows for alfresco meals year-round, an outdoor fireplace adds warmth on cool evenings. Eames chairs surround the live-edge dining table on the terrace (this page and opposite, top).

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The architects incorporated sustainably sourced parota wood into the living room’s sunken seating area (opposite, bottom). The Turn Tall side table is from Blu Dot, and the pillows are from West Elm. Though

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The units are connected by concrete pathways paved with volcanic stone tiles (below). “The separate volumes allow the house to be used in different ways, depending on how many guests are here,” says Mar.

He and Sánchez worked with landscape designer Daniel Jaramillo of Nuevos Territorios to create multiple opportunities to experience the outdoors, such as the enclosed patio off the first volume (bottom).

and library, a kitchen on the ground floor, and a master suite upstairs.

Constructed of board-formed concrete and connected by concrete paths, the units, with their large sliders, keep outdoor living at the forefront. The concrete continues inside, where it’s paired with richly toned parota wood and charredwood details. “The idea for the materials was to reduce them to a minimum and make the landscape the protagonist,” Sánchez explains.

Consistent with other homes in the area, sustainability was built into the scheme. The property is outfitted with a rainwater harvesting system, while rooftop solar panels provide about half of the electricity used on-site. Drinking water is supplied by a nearby well.

The property provides exactly the kind of escape the couple desired. “The plan sort of forces you to be out in the open,” says the husband. “When you’re there, you really feel like you’ve left the city.”

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Architect Ian Butcher designed a two-story addition that cantilevers off the back of Dana Ferestien and Megan Landis’s Craftsman home in Seattle, completely transforming the rear profile (inset) of the 1901 house.

The expansion includes a larger kitchen, a new master bedroom and family room, and two new decks. The cedar shingles on the exterior nod to the original structure.

Artful Craftsman A major remodel of an early20th-century house in Seattle blends the past with the present.

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The floors were sloping and the kitchen pantry was in the basement, but Dana Ferestien and Megan Landis happily lived with the quirks of their 1901 Craftsman home in Seattle’s Madrona neighborhood.

“As two adults, we could just shrug them off,” Dana recalls. “But then we had a son five years ago, and that changed the dynamic. We found ourselves saying, ‘This house isn’t really working for us anymore.’”

They needed more room and betterfunctioning spaces, but they also wanted to maintain the home’s original character.

Dana and Megan ultimately found inspiration in a neighbor’s Craftsman addition

by San Diego artist and designer Roy McMakin. For the couple, it struck the right chord—contemporary yet attuned to the home’s history. Seeking a local architect with a similar approach, they were given a list of recommended firms by a contractor. It included Best Practice Architecture, whose founder, Ian Butcher, had previously worked for

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By placing the extension at the back of the house, Butcher was able to preserve the home’s facade (top).

The kitchen, once cramped and isolated (inset), now flows into the dining area. An island with a quartzite countertop anchors the room (left), and a ceiling range hood by Best keeps sight lines open.

The counter stools were designed by Best Practice Architecture and built by local studio The Woodwork.

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The formerly somber living room (inset) got a splash of color and whimsy with monkeythemed wallpaper by Cole & Son (left). The sofa is from Lazar and the Gilda chair is

by Porada.

“It’s a typical Craftsman, but maybe mildly eccentric.”

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McMakin. “It was serendipitous,” Megan says. The couple hired Best Practice to design both an extension and renovations within the existing house.

Butcher and his team wanted to find a common language between the Craftsman and the addition. “There was some character to the house that we liked and wanted to preserve and celebrate, and some things that we wanted to change to make it more livable for 2019,” Butcher says.

He and the couple decided to build a modern, square-shaped extension in the back of the property, allowing the Craftsman to remain unchanged where it

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faces the street. The same exterior cladding found on the original home—cedar shingles—was used for the expansion, tying the two volumes together. “We loved that contrast: to use this very traditional material on a tight, simple, architectural box,” Butcher says. “It shows reverence for the old house while being entirely its own thing.”

The new kitchen, located on the ground floor of the addition, was the most important space to get right for the couple. “I think at a high level we wanted a kitchen that would be a hub for the family, where you could have lots of people and it

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wouldn’t feel crowded,” explains Megan.

Butcher favored a mix of materials in gray tones to brighten the room, including quartzite countertops sourced from local stone yard Meta Marble & Granite. To resolve a friendly husband-wife disagreement over whether to have a TV in the room, Butcher designed cabinetry so that the screen could be discreetly tucked away.

With the kitchen pantry now in its logical place, the basement could be put to other uses. Butcher enlarged it and built a new stairwell, transforming the mostly

underground space into a light-filled family room with storage and a play area.

On the second floor, a new master bedroom with an adjacent marble-clad bathroom provides a quiet retreat for the parents. A private balcony with sliding glass doors cantilevers off the master suite, creating a covered deck on the first floor— essential in the rainy Pacific Northwest.

The renovation also allowed for smaller gestures that add a touch of whimsy. After selecting a simple gray-and-white palette for most of the interior, the couple took a

chance on a tropical wallpaper design featuring monkeys. “We just had to do it,” Megan says, laughing. “The living room is such a contained box—it seemed like it was asking for something with a more dramatic pop of color.”

Before the remodel, the couple used to treat themselves occasionally to a night at a hotel in downtown Seattle. Now those getaways have ceased, since the house feels more inviting. “Every day we’ve been living in this space,” Megan adds, “we’ve been more and more thrilled with it.”

The dining room was freshened with an all-over coating of Dove White paint by Benjamin Moore. The Big Irony metal table is by Maurizio Peregalli for Zeus, and the Tilda chandelier is from Arteriors Home. All of the existing fir floors were replaced with wide-plank white oak.

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Mix It Up Make a striking statement with this dual-tone faucet.

As one of the home’s most-used spaces, kitchens have to balance functionality and efficiency with style—whether traditional, contemporary, or a little bit of both. Open floor plans and central island designs increasingly expose the kitchen to other parts of the home, providing new opportunities to introduce eye-catching design elements. Whether playing with different scales, colors, or materials, identifying the right finishing touches can transform the kitchen into a unique expression of personal taste.

The new Fusion™ Finish Series from Moen® offers an unexpected take on this formula with

faucets available in dual-tone, mixed-metal finishes. Inspired by the beauty of slicing into a geode to expose its lustrous core, the faucet series presents a similarly arresting visual experience: the illusion of a matte black surface being sliced to reveal a gorgeous chrome center.

The fresh, dichotomic finish of the STō® Fusion kitchen faucet establishes a new asymmetrical language for the STō line of products. Sleek, crisp edges accentuate the juxtaposition of highly polished chrome and matte black finishes, further emphasizing the carefully crafted round

and square components. The resulting form allows homeowners and designers the flexibility to pursue a highly creative vision, with the integration of a sculptural faucet and other mixed-metal elements.

The Fusion Finish Series is currently available in the STō line of pulldown kitchen and bar/ prep faucets, as well as the Via™ line of bathroom faucets.

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Learning Curve A couple acquire the skills needed to build their Bay Area retreat, one task at a time.

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Jeff Waldman and Molly Fiffer’s mountain cabin is made of locally sourced, rough-sawn redwood. The pieces were stained with nontoxic Eco Wood Treatment to give them an aged appearance and a dark patina.

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Guests gather at the cabin for overnight retreats and workshops that range from hog butchering to watercoloring. A Diplomat sleeper sofa by Blu Dot, found on Craigslist, folds out to host visitors (above).

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A Crane Light by Andrew Neyer hangs over the countertop, which is accompanied by a pair of Nerd stools by Muuto. Jeff climbs the hand-built ladder to the sleeping loft (opposite, bottom).

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After renting in San Francisco for 10 years, Molly Fiffer and Jeff Waldman wanted more: more autonomy, more of the outdoors, and more space to host their tight-knit community of friends. The couple just weren’t sure what “more” would look like. They considered buying a house in the suburbs or moving somewhere more affordable, but in the end they decided to stay rooted in their city and find a piece of land nearby on which to build and experiment. So, in September 2016, they bought 10 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where the two had often gone on motorcycle excursions.

Even then, Molly and Jeff weren’t sure what to do with the steep, unruly site. While bushwhacking and camping on the land, they eventually built a fire pit and picnic table using plans found on the web. From there, the couple embarked on increasingly elaborate improvements, each one allowing them to learn new skills and involve more friends. To date, the pair and their pals have built a compound complete with sheds, tree decks, a pavilion, a wood-fired hot tub, an outhouse, an outdoor shower, and, now, a redwood cabin where an ever widening network of friends gather for skill-sharing workshops and events. Here, the DIYers recount the process of building the cabin.

Molly: Jeff is someone who borders on obsession.

He’s a tinkerer, MacGyver, and jack-of-all-trades by nature. When we finished our tree decks, we started experimenting with the design of the cabin.

Jeff: We went through more than 50 designs on paper

was no view at all,” Molly says.

“You had to duck and peek through thick oak brush just to see that there was anything on the horizon.”

Molly feeds wood into a Morsø 1440 stove. The couple and their friends spent hours clearing brush and felling at-risk oak and madrone trees. “There

Jeff: Everything we built there, at the time that we built it, was the pinnacle of our experience and knowhow. So, at one moment, that picnic table represented the totality of what we were capable of making.

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or SketchUp and asked, “How does it sit in the space?

Are these materials that we can get to the site?”

Molly: Even when we started digging to put in the first concrete footing, we asked ourselves, “Is this something we can do?”

Jeff: You kind of just put one foot in front of the other.

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wouldn’t have been as motivated. We were very intentional about bringing in friends, giving them a sense of ownership. We were pleasantly surprised by how many people wanted to roll up their sleeves.

Jeff: We had a build party just putting the platform together for the cabin. We all framed it and put down the subfloor—there were maybe 15 of us.

An upcoming visit from a friend who needed a break from wedding planning gave the couple the incentive to finish the tree deck, which has a wood-fired hot tub on the lower level.

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my house Molly and Jeff wanted their guests to have creature comforts, so early on they built an outdoor shower that’s illuminated by string lights at night.

Molly: We ate dinner on it.

Jeff: The first time we flipped a switch and a light came on, Molly and I marveled. It was mind-blowing.

Molly: It’s just an unparalleled sense of accomplishment knowing that you made it and it’s functional. I also think it’s really important as a woman to learn how to fearlessly hold a chainsaw or a power tool—and to loop in other women who are interested in trying out those skill sets in an environment where they feel comfortable.

“I’ve been in places where it didn’t feel like I could try and fail.

Here, you can bring over a friend and say, ‘Take a hammer and nail. No one’s around. Give it a go.’ ” MOLLY FIFFER, DESIGNER AND RESIDENT

Make It Yours Repurposing materials, using Craigslist, and being efficient helped Molly and Jeff keep the cost of the cabin and deck under $35,000.

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Molly and Jeff scored a Panoramic Door from Craigslist for $3,000—a fraction of the retail price—and kept it in a storage unit while they tweaked the cabin design to fit the used windows they’d found at Urban Ore, a salvage yard in Berkeley. “We’d go there every weekend and painstakingly go through hundreds of windows, see one that might work, write down the measurements, run out to Jeff’s truck, and put it in the SketchUp model,” says Molly.

The couple attached IKEA countertops to Uline wire shelving with closet rod hardware from Amazon, then fitted a Ramblewood propane stovetop into the countertop under the window and a Naiture drainboard sink into the one along the wall. Below the sink, a cooler slides out on a plywood board with the help of casters. The whole kitchen was built for $1,000.

Because they like to read and do crosswords in bed, the couple used an app called iHandy Level to pinpoint the most comfortable angle for the sloped headboard, which opens to reveal two storage bays and includes open shelving for easy outlet access. It was built from three pieces of prefinished maple plywood that cost $80 each. “We’re obsessive about measurements because everything you transport in has to go back out if it’s not used,” says Jeff.

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“Some of our Pacific madrone trees were smack dab where we wanted to put the cabin—and at risk of falling over—so we felled them,” says Molly. They cut boards from the trees using a Granberg Alaskan chainsaw mill and dried the wood for a year. Then they cut and rounded the pieces, which were sanded and rubbed with linseed oil before being used for the ladder, the bookshelves, the kitchen shelf, and a bench.

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Curtain Call Modern shades and draperies integrate seamlessly into a Houston renovation Homeowners Sunil and Shalizeh “Shelly” Patel weren’t totally sure how to select shades and draperies for their Houston remodel, completed

by StudioMET Architects. A visit to The Shade Store eventually helped the couple identify unexpected options in a mix of modern styles.

“Our main goal was to have shades that were very functional but essentially disappear when open,” recalls Sunil. “Our design consultant at The Shade Store created beautiful solutions that we wouldn’t have been able to select or identify on our own.”

Throughout the home, expansive windows and doors frame large oaks in the backyard but also expose interior spaces to hot summer days. To

complement the architectural features and provide appropriate sun protection, the final shades and draperies combine clean, modern aesthetics with the functional needs of different spaces.

Ian Gibbs, cofounder and chief creative officer of The Shade Store, describes the living and dining room: “By layering a motorized roller shade in our textured Chilewich Bamboo material with Sunbrella Neblina drapery, you preserve the clean lines of the architecture while also adding dimension and softness to the space.” In each room, different styles were selected to match privacy needs with the intended use. “The exercise room features our double roller, a unique product that alternates between

transparent and opaque bands, so you can adjust the privacy and light that comes into a space as you raise and lower the product,” continues Gibbs.

The Shade Store offers a variety of custom window treatments for any type of space— be it modern, traditional, or somewhere in between—with over 1,300 different material options for shades, blinds, and drapery.

Experienced professionals in the company’s more than 70 showrooms nationwide will simplify the process, helping you find the perfect combination for your home’s style and needs.

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Architect Richard Hammond and his wife, Daniela, a designer, saw their move to San JosĂŠ as a temporary adventure. But when they found an abandoned, partially built house on a beautiful sloping site, they decided to turn it into their dream home, putting

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down more permanent roots in the process. A series of open and closed volumes, the house incorporates a range of materials, including local mahogany, standing-seam metal, shingled glass, and concrete. A large green roof tops one end.

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The Path Taken A random detour leads an expat couple to discover the foundation for their future in Costa Rica.

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For two years following his relocation to San José from Los Angeles, architect Richard Hammond ran the same route through the southwestern foothills of Costa Rica’s capital two or three mornings a week. On a June day in 2015, something compelled the then design director at Gensler to try a different way home. He rounded a new corner and there it was: a for-sale sign that illuminated the future.

Hammond and his wife, Daniela, weren’t looking for a permanent residence. They imagined returning to the States or moving to South Africa, where Richard had grown up, within a few years.

And if they were to stay on in Costa Rica, they assumed they would follow the example of most expats and build a weekend place on the Pacific, not a primary home 20 minutes outside San José.

Yet the Hammonds called the number listed on the sign. After all, embracing the unexpected is what drew the Zimbabwean-

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and German-born designers, who met in L.A. a decade before, to pursue the transfer to Costa Rica in the first place. For Daniela, who’d left a senior architectural position behind in California and was raising the couple’s two girls and consulting from home, Richard’s discovery also represented a career opportunity. “I had never really seen the moment to have my own practice until this project came along,” she says. “And having both daughters now in school freed up the time to go for it.”

The couple poked around the steep, north-facing half-acre that weekend, looked carefully at the two half-built structures on the site, and made an offer the next week. The characteristic unpredictability of the Costa Rican real estate industry compelled them to wait nine months before closing. In the meantime, the family picnicked near the ridge on the parcel’s edge, as well as within the two buildings, and hiked to the stream at

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A bridge connects the kitchen and dining area with the living room. Much of the furniture— including the nine-foot dining table created from a single slab of a fallen Guanacaste tree—was custom made by local millworker

HDM. The kitchen (opposite, top and bottom) is outfitted with a Whirlpool glass cooktop and an AKDY hood. Volt 678 bar stools by Pedrali line the island. The floors throughout are hand-troweled concrete.

“The house is open, yet it isn’t. Nature is part of it, but it’s still very private, because it’s sunken and tucked away.”

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“A guiding principle was experimentation— we wanted to try things with the house, to explore different materials and ideas.”

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The family cat, Rey, steps in front of the concrete fireplace in the living room. Floor-to-ceiling windows enhance the indoor-outdoor connection. “Instead of using a typical frame system, we created frameless windows by burying

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aluminum channels into the floors and walls,” says Richard.

“It kept our glazing budget much lower than normal.” The large red sliding door (opposite)—one of three—is painted Gypsy Red

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All three bedrooms are on the lower level. In the master (this page and opposite), furnishings include a platform bed designed by Richard and Daniela and fabricated by Manuel Leon, a Jessie Velvet armchair from Altea Design, a Dune pouf by Kare Design, and a rug from Crate & Barrel.

The ceiling is exposed corrugated metal salvaged from the old house’s pitched roof and reused as decking for the concrete slab overhead.

Outside, a hammock beckons.

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The girls rinse off in the partially enclosed shower outside the master bathroom (opposite). “The kids really love the ups and downs and ins and outs of the house,” says

Daniela. Inside, a sunken concrete tub faces a plywood and fiberboard vanity designed by the couple (below). The sinks are by Domus and the faucets are by Glacier Bay.

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the bottom, ultimately teasing apart the property’s virtues.

Richard and Daniela used their observations from these forays as guidelines in their design, and Daniela took the lead on developing it. “The structures were in very good condition, so it felt more correct to shape them into something new rather than take them down,” Daniela says of the initial process. The couple exchanged gables for flat planes accented by a clerestory and a green roof. Their design then expanded the smaller building toward the north and south and cantilevered a balcony over the front of the larger building’s north elevation. In all, the home’s 2,900 square feet accommodates open-plan living and dining areas, three bedrooms, and a large studio.

Instead of combining the two volumes into one house, the Hammonds joined them at the second floor with a bridge.

They also sunk an entry courtyard into the hillside, which fills in the space to the rear.

From the courtyard, a mammoth sliding glass door with red framing outlines the semi-enclosed foyer, the connecting bridge just beyond it, and the valley beyond that. “We didn’t want just a glass box—we wanted something that would allow us to enjoy the views while feeling protected,” Richard says.

The reinvented home’s conjoined floor plan invites constant movement across the bridge or through the courtyard, and its various cutouts and projections reach toward sunlight and vistas. The airflow is similarly constant, and thanks to the extremely temperate high-altitude tropical climate, the house has no HVAC; a fireplace provides an occasional puff of heat. “Guests are confused about the boundaries here, what’s inside and what’s out,” Richard says of the overall effect.

As for the Hammonds, who have recommitted to living in Costa Rica, the house is more clarifying than Richard had originally hoped. He left his job at Gensler last April to join Daniela in full-time entrepreneurship, under the banner Inverse Project, and clients now come to their little wrinkle in the San José foothills to collect ideas for new collaborations. “It has changed our perspective,” Daniela remarks with satisfaction. “We’re really inspired to go down our own path.”

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Sand Castle An architect creates a breezy beach house for an extended Southern California family.

Architect David Montalba renovated a 1970s bungalow for Janette Sosothikul in Oxnard, California, a beach town midway between Malibu and Santa Barbara. “It’s a great little place—a throwback to the old

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days of California coastal communities,” says Montalba. The wood slats screening the bedrooms on the street-facing side are repeated indoors on the staircase (opposite).

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A soapstone island contrasts with white oak cabinetry and flooring in the kitchen (left). The stools are from Palecek. The staircase, which connects the home’s three levels (above), affords privacy while

A sea breeze wafts through Janette Sosothikul’s home in Oxnard, California, ruffling the curtains as her grandkids bound in from the dunes for a game of Ping-Pong. Arrayed on three floors, with wall-to-wall glass sliders along the ocean facade and a skylit stairwell, the house is both an extension of the beach and an airy backdrop for family gatherings.

“The sand is really their living room,” says architect David Montalba. “That simplicity was important to the concept of the house and how it’s used. It’s the ultimate hangout house.”

Flanked by fields of strawberries and lima beans, lemon and avocado groves, and wide beaches, Oxnard has a laid-back rural charm that made it a favorite getaway spot for the Sosothikul clan over the years. When Janette retired, she sold her house outside Los Angeles and looked for a house in the town, figuring it would be the perfect place for her three daughters and their families to gather for weekends, vacations, or day trips.

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allowing light to flow through the interior. Janette’s designer daughter, Kendra Sosothikul, chose Masters chairs from Design Within Reach and linen sheers from Donghia for the dining area (opposite).

another, inching closer to the water with each move. But her search for a home with ocean views proved elusive until a dated two-story bungalow right on the beach came up for sale. Janette’s daughter Kendra, an interior designer, called Montalba. They had first worked together 10 years before on a commercial project and were friends as well as neighbors in Santa Monica.

Montalba immediately grasped the location’s allure. Although he was born in Florence and spent his early years in Switzerland, he had settled in Carmel after moving to the States and later lived and surfed in San Diego. He began formulating a plan to connect the house to the landscape with ocean views from every level. It had to be large enough to comfortably accommodate visits from Janette’s daughters and their husbands and seven grandchildren without dominating the site. “Our work is rooted in modernism,” Montalba explains, “but it’s also rooted in trying to be thoughtful and innovative to solve problems in a beautiful way.”

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Designed as a place to relax and take in the view, the living area features a custom sectional covered in fabric by Kravet and swivel chairs in fabric by Brentano. “Everything is

family-friendly,” says Kendra. “We weren’t just designing for beauty— it had to be functional.” The custom table was finished with teak paper cord. The sconce is by Allied Maker.

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“The architecture isn’t loud. It’s all about the beach and being together, whether you’re in the kitchen, reading a book, or playing a game.”

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Janette’s airy top-floor suite is furnished with a custom bed and night tables from B&B Italia (below). “There’s a casual flow to the spaces,” says Montalba, who

outfitted the ground level with bunks and concrete flooring. The Fleetwood sliders on all three levels (opposite) were trimmed in aluminum to reflect the changing light.

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introduce air and light to a home that would sit close to its neighbors, the central staircase became the project’s linchpin. Its wood louvers offer both privacy and transparency, filtering natural light from the skylight above and from the south-facing windows while providing a screen so that family members can move between floors without disturbing others.

After several months in the planning stages, the staircase was built offsite and then installed by contractor Kirk Hoffman, who had to get from floor to floor by ladder until it was operational. “We had so little space that the stair itself is essentially a folded piece of steel, and each tread is just one steel plate,” Montalba explains.

The interior layout gives the family plenty of opportunities to gather, starting with the “kids’ level” on the bottom. With concrete floors that stand up to sandy feet, it contains four built-in bunks and a living area with loungey sectionals. The undisputed hub of the house is the second floor, where the open-plan living room, dining area, and kitchen look out to the water. Tucked away from the beach facade are two bedrooms, a pair of bathrooms, and the laundry room. Janette has her own suite on the top floor, reached via the stairs or an elevator.

Throughout, Montalba and Kendra emphasized natural, textured materials such as white oak for the floors, rift-cut white oak for the cabinetry, honed soapstone for the kitchen island, and glazed brick and basalt stone for the master bath. The interior palette of muted blues, grays, neutrals, and silver blends into and reflects the scenery.

Kendra, who has a hospitality background and now runs Studio Berosso with cofounder Paula Press, put her experience in hotel design to use when selecting finishes and fabrics. She points to the dining banquette, which has a vinyl seat and linen back, while the custom tabletop itself was cured and lacquered to be virtually indestructible: “I’d say, ‘Could I put that in a hotel lobby or a guest room, and would it last?’ If it would work there, it would work here.”

Whether it’s taking a pounding from kids running in from a day in the water or holding a boisterous holiday meal, the house has become what Montalba had first envisioned—“a canvas for the family and a place that captures the spirit of the beach and their relationship to it.”

“Nothing here is fancy or too precious,” says Kendra. “The house was made for family living.”

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Divine Intervention Two friends breathe new life into a crumbling Spanish church.

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Architect Carlos Garmendia, left, and homeowner Tas Careaga relax in the living room of Tas’s ecclesiastical pad. For three years, the two collaborated closely to transform a 16th-century Basque church near

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Bilbao into a 21st-century home.

With its soaring vaulted ceilings, blend of historical architecture and contemporary aesthetics, and eclectic furnishings, Iglesia de Tas inspires awe once again.

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“I need you. I bought a f*cking church!”

With this blunt text message to his friend, architect Carlos Garmendia of Garmendia Cordero Arquitectos, Tas Careaga kicked off a three-year design adventure. “Back in 2016, I was looking for some land with an old house on it,” says Tas, who runs a small creative agency. Responding to an Internet advertisement for “land with building in ruins on it,” he drove about a half-hour west from Bilbao to Sopuerta, a town nestled in the rolling hills and thick forests of Spain’s northern Basque country. There, he encountered the remains of a small church on the side of a winding road near the edge of a deep, green ravine.

“When I arrived, I absolutely fell in love,” he says.

Abandoned since the late 1970s, the church was in need of serious repair. The roof had caved in and vegetation had thoroughly invaded the structure. Built in the

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mid 16th century, with some add-ons in the form of an 18th-century bell tower and sacristy, the church had obvious archaeological and historical value. The local archbishop and government, which had deemed the building dangerous, didn’t want to demolish it or front the cost to fix it. They listed it for sale, with the stipulation that the new owner take responsibility for repairs immediately.

Tas was more than happy to oblige. He then fired off the aforementioned text to Garmendia and returned to Bilbao to get to work on the project.

This is not a restoration. For Garmendia, the mission was to “show that ruins can have value” by preserving the original building without hiding the effects of time.

Tas wanted a functional space for living, working, and entertaining. They landed on a design that kept as much of the existing stone structure as possible, shoring it

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Garmendia and Tas first considered putting the kitchen in the sacristy, but because it would block views of the outside and was not part of the original structure, they instead placed the simple kitchen in the apse.

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(opposite, top) gives a good impression of Tas’s catholic approach to decorating, which includes mixing Panton chairs with antiques and homemade pieces. A spiral staircase connects the bedroom and the work space (opposite, below).

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up and inserting a contemporary living space while retaining the atmosphere of a romantic ruin.

With the parameters of the concept settled, the most pressing problem was the roof. They ruled out rebuilding in the original style. Instead, Garmendia designed a new roof made of metal panels bolted to the upper levels of the stone facade. Once the connection was watertight—this part of Spain sees about 150 days of rain a year—work on the interior could begin.

It is impossible not to look heavenward when entering the 2,150-square-foot space. At one end, the architect placed an open kitchen underneath the original 40-foot ceiling vault with its centuries-old patina of crumbling stone, plaster, and a fading fresco of stars and fleurs-de-lis.

For the private areas of the home, Garmendia used the original columns that once held up the choir loft and inserted a new wall to support a two-story box containing a bedroom, a work space, and two full baths. Made of fir, the loft can be appreciated as “new architecture

implanted into old,” says Garmendia.

Outside in the garden, while the rest of the country is sweltering in recordbreaking summer heat, familiar gray clouds gather in the sky. A gentle breeze whispers through the surrounding forests, underscoring the gurgle of the stream at the bottom of the ravine and the tinkling of bells attached to goats roaming in the mountains above.

Garmendia arranges charcoal on the makeshift barbecue, its rudimentary grill supported by 220-pound stones and salvaged wooden beams from a collapsed arch. Through enormous sliding glass doors that were fitted into the side wall, Tas brings out a slab of aged beef, chunks of locally grown zucchini, and a simple salad for the sort of unpretentious yet memorable meal the Basque region is known for.

“My original idea was to use the home for events and rent it out on Airbnb,” Tas says over lunch. “But once I began to see its real potential, there was no choice but to settle in here.”

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In keeping with the home’s motif, the bathroom (above) features a wall of religious paintings.

A crystal chandelier set against the decayed stone walls adds an element of lighthearted drama.

For the homeowner, openness and flexibility were the main priorities. That desire is visible in the two-story loft that Tas uses for his bedroom (opposite) and studio space. “Privacy in the home was not a huge issue for me,” says Tas. “I only invite my most intimate friends here anyway.” Garmendia is a regular guest at the house— he even has his own set of keys to come and go as he pleases.

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High Drama An Australian home frames a series of theatrical moments with an interplay of rough and shimmering surfaces.

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In a Melbourne suburb, Splinter Society Architecture designed a versatile home for Mark and Cara Harbottle and their three young children. Its sloping roofline sweeps upward from an enclosed

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courtyard. The character of the house changes as light hits the mix of materials—from rough stone to sleek black aluminum— throughout the day, giving it a sense of constant motion.

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As you walk toward Cornerstone House in Melbourne’s leafy suburb of Northcote, you are treated to the first glimpses of a performance that is about to begin. Long ribbons of black plate aluminum, twisted to create the sense of a rippling curtain, run the full height of the front facade. As you enter stage left, between the unyielding granite blocks that flank the entryway, you suspend your disbelief and brace for something decidedly theatrical.

Mark and Cara Harbottle weren’t specifically looking for a lot of drama when they first provided their brief to architects Asha Nicholas and Chris Stanley from Splinter Society Architecture. What they sought was a home that would grow with them and their three young children, the use of robust natural materials, and a sense of privacy. Working in IT, Mark also wanted to make the most of the latest home automation systems.

But when the designers looked to the locale for context, the site itself proved an irresistible grand stage. The property sits above ancient lava flows and is not far from multiple quarries, the source of the stones used to construct many of Melbourne’s oldest buildings. As an homage, the architects brought in a dozen

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oversized granite blocks to form the basis of the design, strategically placing them at surprising moments as you make your way through the house and landscape. The massive blocks have largely retained the industrial tooling marks that are normally cut away to form tiles and blockwork—the trace of human labor only accentuates the natural heft of these brutes.

“The stones are the thing that makes people go ‘Wow!’” Cara says. “They’re very unexpected and very different from anything they’ve seen elsewhere.”

The stones were craned into position early in construction, and they anchor the central spine of the 4,800-square-foot plan. The house rises up from them with a contrasting lightness. A curved roof peels skyward from a single-story living and dining space to a two-story volume containing bedrooms that is capped by a slightly irregular gable. Large glass windows and sliding doors frame a courtyard and pool.

From the raised poolside deck, the building reads as a collection of smaller structures.

As you enter the courtyard, past the first of the monolithic stone protagonists, the natural light playing off varied materials makes for a powerful opening act. Warm timbers contrast with black steel and

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Glimmering metal finishes, polished stone, and jewel-colored furnishings contrast with the heft of the granite blocks that anchor the house. Splinter Society designed a sculptural divider made of African

gold marble, mild steel, and smoked mirror for the living room (opposite), which has sofas from Meizai. It also created a kitchen island with a gray lapatro-finish granite top and a rose gold stainless steel base (below).

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custom piece by Giffin Design.

A Silhouette pendant by Ross Gardam hangs in the bedroom (opposite). The linens are from Cultiver, and the alarm clock is

by George Nelson for Vitra.

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“We wanted to know that the house would last a long time, so no matter what age the kids were, it would be appropriate.” CARA HARBOTTLE, RESIDENT

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The native plantings in the courtyard (above), which is enclosed by a wall for privacy in the suburban setting, visually link it to the established eucalyptus trees at the front and rear of the property. The home’s

dark cladding is accented by rose gold stainless steel panels. Ribbons of black aluminum on the streetside facade (opposite) appear to seamlessly twist as they reveal windows and offer a peek of greenery.

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gray-blue stonework, while vertical standing-seam cladding with perfectly straight lines is in conversation with the draped-canvas-like roofline and the rugged, predominantly native garden.

The real magic, though, is in wellthought-out and expertly crafted details.

The concave ceiling has been finished with roughly textured plaster, so that at a certain point in the day the sunlight catches every trowel mark, instantly bringing the surface to life. Thick blackbutt timber doors allow for privacy or disappear into wall recesses in the playroom-cumguestroom. Technology has been expertly integrated, fading into the background until it bursts into life in the form of music, lighting, and automatic blinds the moment someone hits the “party mode” switch.

“Asha is into order, refinement, and simplicity, while I’m into chaos and more,” Stanley says, explaining the creative ideology behind Splinter Society’s design. “A lot of our jobs are a balance between trying to get some regularity and a singular narrative, but then having lots of little moments that break it and create interest.”

The building gets its theatrical quality from these moments. It has a sense of constant motion as light moves across surfaces and reflects off water, metal, and glass. The home transitions slowly from one function to the next as the family goes about their day. These gestures, some subtle and some striking, add up to a spectacular performance.

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That’s a Wrap In Pukwana Beach, Wisconsin, Lindsay Pauly and Daniel Ohrtman married their desire for minimalism and sustainability with their wish for a family-friendly summer house.

A Wisconsin lake house is sheathed in tiles made of post-industrial waste.

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Although synthetic slate roof tiles have been around since the 1970s, the way architect Stephen Bruns used them to completely clad Woven House—named for the single-story vestibule that connects the home’s two massive forms—is unusual. “I love this material,” says Bruns. “The way light reflects off the tiles creates a specular effect, almost like a mosaic.” That reflective quality is enhanced by the floor-to-ceiling windows by Loewen (left). In the living room, reclaimed white oak beams clearly mark where the wall stops and the gables begin (below).

“The house is so relaxed. There’s a whole lot of bare feet and lemonade there.” STEPHEN BRUNS, ARCHITECT On a perfect Saturday afternoon this summer, Lindsay Pauly stood in the kitchen of her vacation house in central Wisconsin, the calm eye of a family whirlwind. Her 4-year-old twin boys were bent intently over a mountain of Legos on the dining table, her 10-month-old son was crawling fearlessly across the kitchen floor, her 6-year-old daughter was getting ready for a walk with Lindsay’s mom, and a cousin had just rolled in from Germany. Beyond the floor-toceiling windows of the living room, pale blue Lake Winnebago beckoned. Lindsay was in her element.

The Madison, Wisconsin, native grew up spending summers on this stretch of grassy lakefront dotted with houses belonging to her parents and relatives; her children are the sixth generation to vacation here.

When she and her husband, Daniel Ohrtman, a bond trader, decided to build a place in the family compound for their own growing family to escape the noisy bustle

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of their home base of Brooklyn, connection was key: to that past, to their extended families in the Midwest, and of course to the lake itself. So was style. “We love minimalism,” says Lindsay, an interior designer. “If it were just Dan and me, we’d be living in a white cube.”

Milwaukee architect Stephen Bruns neatly met the couple’s requirements with a pair of black gabled forms that, as he puts it, “distill the idea of home.”

The south volume, which is narrower and slightly shorter, houses family bedrooms and Dan’s office, while the north one comprises a double-height kitchen and living room plus a guestroom and a loft.

A single-story volume containing the dining room and entrance hall connects them. On the lake side, near total glazing links the house to the water and powerfully emphasizes the home’s triangular forms.

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The kitchen (above) is one of Lindsay’s favorite spaces in the house. There, she can be part of the action going on inside while enjoying sweeping views of the outside.

The concrete island and reclaimed oak cabinetry are brightened with

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insulation as well as drainage and ventilation systems. The exterior is clad entirely in tiles made from recycled rubber and plastic—technically a roofing material—giving the eaveless home a tightly wrapped skin. “Although we used a traditional gabled form, we wanted to clean it up quite a bit,” says Bruns.

The process was collaborative—typical for Bruns, but unusually so this time because Lindsay handled many aspects of the interior (the limited palette is a nod to her mother, who wears only black and white).

As for the overall design, Lindsay requested just one major tweak to the space: angling the “private” volume so that the window of the twins’ bedroom, in the center, would open toward the lake. “I grew up sharing a gabled room with my brother in the house my great-grandfather built overlooking this lake, and we’d fall asleep listening to the waves. I wanted that for my kids,” she says.

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Brica Wilcox A 25-foot custom bifold door made of corrugated plastic and twin-wall polycarbonate encloses an artist’s studio designed

by Marc Frohn of FAR frohn&rojas.

“The material choices were all relatively basic,” says Frohn.

“I like working with everyday things.”

Ceramic tiles by Quarry Tile Company line the exterior.

Room to Create A Los Angeles artist clears away the old to make space for a versatile studio and deck.

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Kim Schoen is used to thinking outside the box, but when rising rents prompted the artist to give up her workspace in L.A.’s Chinatown, she didn’t imagine the replacement would turn out to be literally in her own backyard. That is, not until designer Marc Frohn proposed transforming the rundown wood balcony behind her Mount Washington home into a large deck with a studio tucked below.

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Frohn, cofounder of the architectural design and research firm FAR frohn&rojas, took advantage of the sloping site to carve out a nearly 500-square-foot space where Kim could work on her photo and video installations. A bifold garage-style door runs along one entire side. When the door is closed, light washes through its translucent panels; when open, it doubles as an overhang that frames views of the San Gabriel Mountains. “The studio is malleable,” says Kim. “I can shoot there, and I had blackout curtains made for when I need it dark for editing. It suits the way I work.”

Though Frohn kept costs in check by using materials like corrugated plastic and twin-wall polycarbonate for the door and ceramic tile for the deck and exterior stairs, construction wasn’t without challenges. “There are very minimal throughways on either side of the house, and everything had to be brought down by hand,” he says. But the designer was committed to giving Schoen both a flexible workspace and a connection to nature.

Shaded by a eucalyptus tree, the deck has become a kind of outdoor living/ dining room as well as a transition from home to work. Says Kim, “Because the studio has an entirely different feeling from my domestic interior, I’m hoping there will be a psychological division as well. I want it to be a space that offers a blank slate for creating things.”

Frohn glued layers of plywood and linoleum together to fashion the work table (left). Kim can pull the custom blackout draperies closed when she’s editing videos.

Displayed around the studio are images from her first solo show in 2007 and photos of fake books she created for her 2017 exhibition, “Hawaii.” Acapulco chairs sit atop the deck (above), which looks north to the San Gabriel Mountains.

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